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JN140: Jeanette & Nelson in TWO "Sweethearts" Broadcasts!

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Two different Screen Guild radio versions of "Sweethearts," starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. They are not identical although very similiar. Most of the songs from the film are included. However, in the first show they sing "Little Grey Home in the West" while in the second they substitute "Cricket on the Hearth," of which we hear only a snippet in the film.

The first "Sweethearts" was broadcast on March 25, 1946 and both stars were relaxed and sang well. According to an eyewitness account, Nelson was playful and pulled off one of Jeanette's shoes, tossing it onto the stage. After the show, according to the eyewitness in the audience, he wanted to kiss her but she kept "pushing on his 'manly chest' for all she was worth. He kept trying to drag her out in front of the curtains, but she kept wrestling with him until he finally had to let her go."

The second broadcast was December 15, 1947. Again, eyewitness accounts tell us that the two stars seemed stressed and Nelson was "very pale. Jeanette fluffed her lines right and left and Nelson just didn't seem to be particularly interested in the whole thing. They gave the impression that they hadn't been very well rehearsed." After singing "Cricket on the Hearth", the two stars sat down, Jeanette held her script in front of her face and whispered to Nelson about how they had "loused up that song - you could see by her eyes she was embarrassed. But Nelson, 'the perfectionist' -what did he do? He just sprawled confidently in his chair and with an airy wave of his hand to Jeanette whispered so all could read his lips, 'Nobody will ever notice it.'"

The sound quality on the first show is better than the second. Now you can listen to both shows and compare the similiarities and differences, and of course - there are the wonderful songs!